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J. C. POORE.

DOLL. APPLICATION FILED'APR- 5, 1919:

Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

A ORNEYS:

JOHN G. POORE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DOLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

Application filed April 5, 1919. Serial No. 287,669.

2 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN C. Poonn, acitizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county ofSuffolk, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Dolls, of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and reasonably cheapdoll embodying, in the head portion thereof, mechanism by means of whichthe eyes of the doll may be moved at will into every natural position;

r the eye controlling mechanism being, preferably, so arranged that thelife-like appearance of the head is in no way or degree changed.

Briefly described my invention consists of mechanism concealed in thehead and connected with the ears of the doll; in such manner that, byproperly manipulating the 'ears, the eyes may be caused to turn to theright or left or may be moved vertically.

For the purpose of explaining my said invention clearly I have providedthe annexed drawings, in which the Figure 1 is a front view of a dollshead having my present improved mechanism mounted therein; thesupporting frame of said mechanism being indicated by dotted outline.

Fig. 2 is a detached, side View of one of the eye-supporting levers.Fig. 3 is a top view of the eye-operating mechanism, re-

" moved from the dolls head and Fig. l is an end elevation of the same.

Fig. 5 is a relatively enlarged detail, plan, view of one of theeye-operating levers and its supporting and actuating means.

In these drawings: the dolls head is indicated by the letter a and theears by the letters b and c, said ears being fixedly secured to the endsof eye-operating rods, as I will explain more explicitly hereinafter.

Within the head a is a frame formed, as here shown, with opposing,parallel, side walls dr-"d which are connected by end portions cc inwhich ends are slidably and rotatably mounted rods f-; to which the earsof the doll are secured. The rods f and f, are loosely supported, aboutmidway of their length, by brackets gg which are secured to one of theside walls of the supporting frame.

The eye-balls are denoted by the letters fir-h and they are mounted,respectively, on one end of levers ?l that are formed with balls Ia /c,about midway the length of the said levers, and the balls /c7c arefulcrumed in frictionally acting spring sockets m--m in such manner thatthe eye may be rocked vertically and laterally within cer tainprescribed limits, in order to permit all usual, or natural, movementsto the eye balls. The inner end portions of the levers 71 and 1 1 areprovided with heads n-n which have openings adapted to receive,respectively, eccentrics 0 and 0 that are mounted fixedly on the innerends of the rods f and f the arrangements of the parts thus fardescribed being such that, when the ears are grasped and drawn outwardor pushed inward, the connected eyes will be moved laterally and, whenthe said rods are rocked in their bearings, the eyes will be movedvertically. Each eye may be controlled independently, as to itsmovements, or may be caused to move in unison, by properly manipulatingthe ears of the doll.

Referring now to Fig. 3 of the drawings, it will be seen that the rodsf-f are provided with spiral springs pp which extend both sides of thebrackets g-g, one end of each spring abutting the end wall of the frameand the other end abutting a collar 5 or s, as the case may be, which isfixed on the rod 7' or f. The collar 8 abuts the eccentric 0 and a likecollar 8 abuts the said eccentric at its other side, as is perhaps bestseen in Fig. 5 of the drawin s, the arrangement of parts being suchthat, when the rods f-/''' are moved longitudinally, in eitherdirection, the springs will return the rods to their respective normalposition.

The manner of securing the described eyeoperating mechanism in the headof the doll is not material.

It may be accomplished by removing the top of the said head andinserting the mechanism or it may be done by molding the head around themechanism.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In combination in andwith a dolls head, movable eyes and means connected means consisting ofsprings for automati- With the dolls ears for manually moving callyreturning the eyes to their initial posaid eyes. sitions.

2. In combination in and with a dolls 4. In combination in and with adolls 5 head, movable eyes, and means connected head, independentlymovable eyes mounted 15 with the dolls ears for independently mo'vinsaid head, means for manually movin ing said eyes. said eyes, and meansconsisting of spira. 3. In combination in and with a dolls springs forreturning the eyes to their initial head, movable eyes means connectedwith positions. 10 the dolls ears for moving said eyes, and JOHN C.POORE.

